Picture-displaying box.



A. LESSING.` PICTURE DISPLAYING Box.

Patented Apr.' 8

APPLICATION FILED HOV. 29, 1912.

ALBIN LESSING, F WEST HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

PICTURE-DISPLAYING BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 8, 1913.

Application filed November 29, 1912. Serial No. 734,001.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBIN LEssING, a citizen of Germany, residing at West Hoboken, county of Hudson, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Picture-Displaying B0X, of which the foll lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a boX adapted to receive souvenirs, notions, dry goods, candies and other articles of merchandiseand so constructed as to present successively a series of pictures to t-he eye of the operator without requiring the ho-X to be previously emptied. In this way the box will act as an inducement for the purchase of the articles therein contained, and will furthermore furnish a pleasing diversion. I v

,In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a diametrical sect-ion of a boX embodying my invention; Fig. 2 a top view thereof on a reduced scale with the cover removed;-

Fig. 3 a reduced section on line-3-3, Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 a reduced bottom View.

The device comprises essentially a circular shell 10 having a b'ottom 11 and made of sheet metal or other rigid material. Shell 10 telescopes a similarly shaped container or box proper 12 having a bottom 13 and a circumferential bead 14 that rests upon the upper edge of the shell and rotatably supports the container upon the latter. Container 12 projects some distance above the shell, while its bottom 13 is located Some distance above bottom 11, so as to form a chamber 15 in the shell beneath the cony The container is adapted to be.

tainer. closed by a cover 16 having a depending liange 17 thattelescopes container 12, said cover being held against independent rotation by means of a depending lug 18 that engages a corresponding notch 19 formedl at the upper edge of the container.

Bottom 11 is provided 'with a plurality of openings arranged at like radial distances and having windows 20 formed of differently colored pieces of glass, or other transparent or translucent material. From the cent-er of bottom 11, there extends upwardly into chamber 15 a pivot 21 upon which is free to turn an open work plate 22, which-is cut out opposite windows 20 and has an upwardly extending toothed rim 23. This rim is operatively engaged by anexteriorly accessible star wheel 24 accommodated in a slot'25 of shell 10 and pivoted in bearings' 26 thereof. Upon plate 22 rests -a glass or 'the latter.

similar disk 27 provided with a plurality of pictorial representations 28 arranged in a. circle and adapted to .become successively allned with windows 20.

Disk 27 is frictionally held against plate 22 by a spring29 secured to bottom 13 at 30 and bearing preferably upon the center of the disk, so that the latter will be taken along by the plate during the rotation of To bottom 13 there is secured a tube 31 \vithin which the sleeve 32 of a magnifying lens 33 is adjustable. Below tube 31, bottom 13 is provided with an aperture 34, while above the tube, cover 16 is 70 provided with a window 35 which aperture and window have a like radial distance from the center of the device as pictures 28 and windows 20. Opposite each window 20,'

there is formed in shell 10, a socket 36 75 adapted to be removably engaged by a corresponding -projection 37 of'container 12,- one of said projectionsbeing placed opposite lens 33. In this way, Ithe proper relative position between lens and either one of the windows may be ascertained and become fixed.

In use container 12 is filled with suitable articles of merchandise and then cover 16 is closed, its lug 18 engaging notch 19, 86

whereby Window 35 is brought opposite lens 33. Upon holding the box with its bottom toward the light and looking through window 35 and lens 33, a magnitiedrepresentation of the alined picture 2 8 will be ob- 1 l served by the spectator, which is colored according to the backing 20 alined -with the magnifying lens. By now slowly turning star wheel24, plate 22 and disk 27 will be correspondingly turned, so that the pictures of the cycle are successively exposed.- Should it be desired to change the color of the background, a turn is gwen-to cover`16 which by lug 18 and notch 19 will take container 12 along, so that in this way the *l plurality of transparent images, and a. con-` l tionally held to the plate and carrying a tainer engaging the shell and having an apertured bottom above the disk.

2. A picture display box, comprising a.

shell having a bottom and a plurality of differently colored` windows in said bottom, -a rota-table disk above said bottom and bearing a plurality` of transparent images, and a container adjustably` supported on the shell and having an. apertured bottom abovel the disk.

3. A picture display boX, comprising a shell having a bottom and a pluralityof differently colored windows in said bottom,

a rotatable disk above said bottom and bearl ing a plurality of transparent images, exteriorly accessible means for rotating said disk, an -apertured container adjustably sup-v ported on the shell, and a magnifying device mounted within said container in alinement with-the container-aperture.

4. A picture. display box comprising a shell having abottom and a plurality-of di'erently colored windows in said bottom, a rotatable disk above said bottom and bearing a plurality of transparent images, exteriorly accessible means for rotating saidl disk, an apertured container adjustably sup tom, an open work plate rotatable on 'the pivot and having a toothed rim, 4an exteriorly accessible star wheel carried by the shell andv engaging said rim, a disk ricplurality of trans arent images, an apertured container ad]ustably supported 0n the shell, and a magnifying device mounted within said container in alinement with the container-aperture.

6. A picture dis lay box comprising a shell having awin owed bottom, a disk rotatable above the bottom and having a cycle` of transparent images, exteriorly accessible means for rotating said disk,-an apertured container seated upon the shell above the disk, and a ma ifying`v device mounted within the container.

7. A picture dis lay box comprising a 'shell having a windowed bottom, an open work plate rotatably mounted on said bottom, a disk removably supported on the -plate and having a cycle of transparent images, exteriorly accessible means for rotating the plate, an apertured container seated upon the shell above. the disk, and a magni- -f'ying device carried by'the container.

'8. A picture display box comprising ashell having a bottom and a plurality of .differently colored windows in said bot-tom, a rotatable disk above said bottom and bearing a plurality .of transparent images, exteriorly accessible means for rotating said disk, a windowed container adjustably supported on the shell, a magnifying device carried by the container, and means for fixing the container in diierent ositions relatively to the shell,whereby sai magnifying device ma be alined .with either one ofthe shell-win ows.

, ALBIN LEssING.

Witnesses.:I y FRANK v. Bmsaml KATHERYNE Koen. 

